APPENDIX 6: ABBREVIATIONS AND ACROYNMS
AMEC An engineering, project management and consultancy
company
AGR Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactors
BGS British Geological Society
BIS Department for Business, Innovation
and Skills
BNFL British Nuclear Fuels Ltd
BWR Boiling Water Reactor
CCA Climate Change Act
CCC Climate Change Committee
CCFE Culham Centre for Fusion Energy
CCS Carbon Capture and Storage
CEA Commissariat à l'énergie
atomique et aux énergies alternatives
CEGB Central Electricity Generating Board
CoRWM Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
CSR Comprehensive Spending Review
DECC Department for Energy and Climate Change
DIAMOND Decommissioning, Immobilisation and Management
of Nuclear Wastes for Disposal (an EPSRC consortium
grant)
DWP Department for Work and Pensions
EDF Energy An energy company
ERM Electricity Market Reform
EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
Council
ERP Energy Research Partnership
ETI Energy Technologies Institute
Euratom European Atomic Energy Community
GCSA Government Chief Scientific Adviser
GIF Generation IV Forum
GoCo Government-owned contractor-operated
body
GW Gigawatt (an energy unit)
g/(kW.h) grams per kilowatt hour
HSE Health and Safety Executive
IEA International Energy Association
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
ISIS The pulsed neutron and muon source
at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire.
Owned and operated by the STFC.
KNOO Keeping the Nuclear Option Open (An RCUK
consortium grant)
LWR Light Water Reactor
M/yr Millions a year
MoD Ministry of Defence
MOX Mixed Oxide Fuel (a nuclear fuel type)
NDE Non-Destructive Evaluation
NDA Nuclear Decommissioning Association
NDT Non-Destructive Testing
NEA Nuclear Energy Agency
NERC Natural Environment Research Council
NIA Nuclear Industries Association
NAMRC Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research
Centre
NNL National Nuclear Laboratory
NRI Nuclear Research Index
NuSAC Nuclear Safety Advisory Committee
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development
OND Office for Nuclear Development
ONR Office for Nuclear Regulation
PWR Pressurised Water Reactor
R&D Research and Development
RDA Regional Development Agency
RCUK Research Councils UK
RWMD Radioactive Waste Management Division
SME Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise
SMP Sellafield MOX plant
SQEP Suitably qualified and experienced
personnel
STEM Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths
STFC Science and Technology Facilities Council
THORP Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant
TIC Technology Innovation Centre
TINA Technology Innovation Needs Assessment
TRL Technology Readiness Level
TSB Technology Strategy Board
UKERC UK Energy Research Centre
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